Smell-Visualizing Colorimeter Can Fingerprint Coffee Aromas and Toxic Gases
A cheap meter can now translate the most esoteric coffee aromas into pretty colored
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The Dizzying Future Of Augmented Reality, Envisioned
We are all RoboCop
If you?re even slightly nauseated/hungover/susceptible to vertigo, this clip from a project at the Bartlett School of Architecture in London is not for you. Master?s student Keiichi Matsuda?s vision of a future mash-up of architecture, augmented
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Sony's New Internal Wireless Tech Snips Wires Inside Your Gadgets
Fewer wires mean less breakdowns and smaller packages
Wireless TV just got a whole new
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This Week, Cybersecurity Efforts Advance on Several Fronts
Google teams up with the NSA, the DoD invests in cyberdefense, smart-grid defense costs add up, and more
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Rewriting Desktop Printer Can Erase and Reuse Documents
Figuring out how to recycle TPS reports and office printouts appears to have become a passion for Japanese engineers, as DigInfo News has discovered in recent days. If the "White Goat" machine that converts paper sheets into toilet paper failed to appeal, consider this
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Coming This Summer: A Multitouch Skin That Can Make Any Surface A Touchscreen
Think that 9.7-inch iPad display is all the touchscreen you need? Portuguese company Displax would
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Heading to the Olympics? Don't Leave Without Controlling the CN Tower's Lights With Your Mind
Vancouver will host the largest "thought-controlled computing" installation ever
It wouldn't be the
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Ultra-Strong Biomimetic Adhesive Could Allow Human Wall-Walking, Ceiling-Dancing
Leaping tall buildings, punching through solid concrete walls and using public phone booths
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Teen Inventor's Cave Radio Could Save Lives Deep Underground
Cave-texting device involves combination of computer and ham radio
Science fair projects don't
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Richard Branson Unveils Bond-Style Deep-Sea Submarine
Not content with space alone, the founder of Virgin Galactic wants to explore the oceans too
Billionaire
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Stars Can Teach Us a Thing or Two about Manufacturing Carbon Nanotubes, NASA Finds
Efficient space-born recipe requires no metal
Carbon nanotubes may push future innovations
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Smell-Visualizing Colorimeter Can Fingerprint Coffee Aromas and Toxic Gases
A cheap meter can now translate the most esoteric coffee aromas into pretty colored
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World's First Junctionless Transistor Could Revolutionize Chip Industry
Transistor junction, what's your function now? Irish researchers at the Tyndall National Institute have fabricated the world's first junctionless
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An Electrifying Christmas Light Display, Courtesy of Nikola Tesla
A physics fanatic down under is having a very Tesla
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Saturn's Moon Spews Ice In Magnificent Plumes
And Cassini was there to see it
NASA's Cassini spacecraft has repeatedly taken the plunge into
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Teen Inventor's Cave Radio Could Save Lives Deep Underground
Cave-texting device involves combination of computer and ham radio
Science fair projects don't
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Celebrating 50th Anniversary, Bubble Wrap Joyfully Bursts Own Bubble
Can't stop the pop!
America's beloved Bubble Wrap turns 50 today, proving that even ephemeral
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New Laser-Driven Displays Use 75 Percent Less Power Than Today's Screens
LCDs, make way for LPDs
Films such as Blade Runner and Minority Report tend to show tons
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An Awesome Oscilloscope Serial Terminal. But Why?
Electronics geeks hacking oscilloscopes fall, for me, into the same category as support
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Panasonic Will Market First Li-Ion Storage Battery for Home Use in 2011
The battery could power zero-emissions homes
Bringing power storage to the people, Panasonic
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Silicon Shrinkwrap Melts Smoothly Onto Cat Brain to Monitor Activity in Real Time
Implanting clunky electrodes or other devices inside people's heads could someday give way to smoother, silkier neuromedicine. Scientists say that they have successfully measured the electrical activity of cat brains by using a silk-silicon surface mesh, according to
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Using Lasers to Steam-Clean Buildings After a Radioactive or Chemical Attack
The initial fallout from a chemical or radiological attack would be devastating enough, but the cleanup of such an incident would be equally hazardous. While HAZMAT teams and other authorities have methods of scrubbing radiological and chemical waste, the porous nature
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Spaceborne Speedtraps: Satellites Help Plate-Reading Cameras Continuously Track Speeding Drivers
Evasive speed demons may have a harder time avoiding a GPS-enabled speed camera which can capture license plate numbers under any weather condition, 24 hours a day. The new speed cameras in the UK use GPS satellites to help measure cars' average driving speeds over long
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Quantum Broadband Network is So Secure It's Unbreakable (in Theory)
In the world of IT, it really doesn't matter how much data you can transmit if you can't send it safely and securely. Now, Toshiba researchers in the UK have created the first high-speed network connection that is theoretically
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Molecule-Sized Computer Mimics Human Brain At Work
A team of researchers from Japan and the US have built a molecular computer whose operation mimics a human brain. The tiny circuit, comprised of organic molecules on a gold substrate, is capable of super-fast concurrent calculations that
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Combining MRI with Atomic Microscopy, Researchers Get 3-D Images of Viruses, Cells
Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is a crucial diagnostic tool and an all-around cool technology that creates three-dimensional views of living tissues without being invasive or harming living tissues. But MRI is also limited; while telescopes see further and further
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Braille for Faces: Using a Camera and Tactile Display, System Lets Blind "See" Others' Emotions
It's one thing to tell someone how you feel, but seeing is believing. So their inability to see the face and body language of other people can potentially leave visually impaired people
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With New Quantum Encryption Scheme, Messages Can Only Be Read in Designated Geographical Location
If information is power, then encryption is the key to the kingdom. Last week Toshiba tested a quantum broadband link so secure it's theoretically unbreakable. Now a researcher at the University of New South Wales in Sydney has devised an even more sophisticated
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Nanodot Tech Crams Billions of Pages of Information onto a Single Tiny Chip
In the US, North Carolina State University researchers have made a big breakthrough in data storage tech, and it's all thanks to some very tiny dots. Using nanodots - tiny nanoscale magnets - the team has manufactured
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Inexpensive Nano-Grooved 'Traffic Cop' Filter Could Supercharge Fiber-Optic Data Speeds
Fibre-optic cable has exponentially increased the speed at which we can transfer data over the decades, but as we stream more and more services through a single fibre cable, we can expect all that information to start bottlenecking at some point. To keep that from happening,
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